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Washington Week in Review - New host

Massachusetts
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I am disappointed by the new host or should I say new moderator of Washington Week. I do not find that Jeffrey Goldberg acted as a moderator. He is a very partisan person and has long been so in his roll as editor of the Atlantic. The Atlantic used to be a literary magazine, but it lost its roots when it left Boston for DC. Under Goldberg and his immediate predecessors, The Atlantic has become a mouth piece for the left-wing. I cannot imagine Goldberg doing otherwise for Washington Week. On yesterdays introductory show he led the discussion with his own biased point of view instead of eliciting thoughts and ideas from the guests. I have been a long time listener of the show and I long for the kind of discussion and analysis and REPORTING that occurred when Paul Duke was in the lead-chair. I hope for a different outcome, but I expect that Goldberg will be delivering the same old tired 'journalism' that is threat to 'our' democracy.

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Un-American Activity

Illinois
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What if the Public Broadcasting Service changed their name to American Public Television and National Public Radio changed their name to American Public Radio? It would remove the generic template and thwart a foreign invasion while providing the American people with a national identity.

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All things considered

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I want to cancel my membership. All the talk about how great Beyonce is better than church and all the hip hop crap is not for me. How do I cancel my membership?

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Ayesha Rascoe

Federated States Of Micronesia
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Ayesha Rascoe is one dumb c**t. BIDEN ECONOMICS SUCKS C**K MORE THAN ***ALLOVERME HARRIS DOES! NO TAXPAYER FUNDS FOR NATIONAL PABLUMPUKERS RADIO (NPR).

PNS FREE ACCESS

California
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I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW THIS HAPPENED THAT PBS IS A PYAY CHANNEL AND I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY THE GOVT HAS SANCTIONED THIS? THEY RUN COMMERCIALS AND PROPGANDA AND DONT CONVEY NEWS BUT A SLANTED OPINION PIECE CALLED NEWS. THIS SHOULD BE FREE FOR EVEYONE... I WANT THE GOVE TO STOP GIVING THEM MONEY...MY MONEY TOWARDS THEIR AGENDA AND GIVING THEM AWARDS FOR SERVING THE PUBLIC GOOD??? LOL THE GOVT AND FTC AND FCC IS OUTRAGEOUSLY MORALLY BANKRUPT

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Weekend edition

California
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Please give Ayesha a pay raise and promote her to a position that suits her talents more than a job that really really needs a pleasant non-irritating grating speaking voice

Anchor person Jennifer

Colorado
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Where is Michelle Greigo? Please put her on your morning edition It's hard to watch this other person.

Sunday ATC

Massachusetts
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As others, but not all of course, have noted: I find the Sunday ATCvirtually impossible to listen to. The voice matters. More so the content and presentation matters. I no longer tune in.

Sunday Edition

Pennsylvania
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It is impossible to listen to Ayesha Rascoe. I am so offended by her voice and the poor judgement the station made in hiring her that after listening supporting WHYY for many years, I no longer turn the station on.

Weekend Edition, Ayesha Rascoe

Wyoming
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I love Ayesha Rascoe's hosting! In addition to having a great sense of humor and easy-going style, she brings a Black perspective to her show. Each time I listen there is at least one story of a Black or Brown person, play, business, or event. Yet, these stories are presented without any vibe of "white people should feel guilt!" (I am White). The stories come across as just great additions to the American cultural fabric because of her comfortable, easygoing style. For example, she asks questions I'm sure she knows the answers to, but does not let her perspective show (representative example, not real: "And how did the community feel when the school board decided X?"). I really appreciate all these stories. It builds connection rather than separation between groups who identify as having unique qualities. Building connections is a valuable goal these days. Thanks for sharing your talents, Ms. Rascoe!

My Sunday Mornings are ruined

New Mexico
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I mean, Ayesha Rascoe seems like a nice person. But her accent is awful, and listening to her is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. What's more her interviews are pretty inane, and her habit of making dumb statements that she thinks are funny and then laughing at herself while the interviewee stays awkwardly quiet just leaves me cringing. I've been a huge fan for decades, but I've basically had to stop listening to Sunday Edition. I'm sure there is a great place for her somewhere in the NPR schedule, but please please move her from weekend mornings!

Sunday Morning Edition

Connecticut
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Please replace/remove Ayesha Rascoe. I see many comments and complaints re: her voice/delivery. I cannot and will not listen.

Sunday Morning Edition

Connecticut
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Please replace/remove Ayesha Rascoe. I see many comments and complaints re: her voice/delivery. I cannot and will not listen.

Interrupted TV broadcast signal on both kqed and kqed plus

California
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HELP PLEASE!!!! For the last two weeks my excellent signal reception (dish roof antenna) has suddenly become constant terrible and impossible to watch: "fail to receive" "no broadcast at this time" distorted pics, lines, dots, scattered sound bites. What is going on??? Problems at SUTRO broadcasting again? FYI-- channel 4 is constant "fail" and channel 65 is responding same as 9 only worse. Tonight July 3 I'm getting a solid fail for the last hour since 8:30pm.

Starting two weeks ago the local Foothills Amateur Radio Society was/is preparing for the Annual Amateur Radio Field Day. (Since over ten years ago, a close by ham operator using an extra strong signal was the source of our TV interference, I've tried to follow up through their organization but have no response yet.)

I'm on Vineyard Dr. in Los Altos and a sustaining kqed member. Jackie S******s

Great American Recipe

Florida
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Why don't you offer any information on how to apply as a contestant on this show?

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A Modest Enquiry into the Necessity of a TV License.

Pennsylvania
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Hello there. I would like to suggest that you start having people with television sets pay a compulsory monthly TV License fee. The reason why I'm suggesting this is because PBS and NPR have not been receiving that much funding lately, and only 15% of all PBS funding comes from the U.S. government. That's where my idea comes in. Many countries have been using this system of funding for their public broadcasters for quite some time. Here's how it works: Everyone who owns a TV set with an antenna hooked up to it or watches TV online using the Internet has to pay this fee. People will have a bill sent to them every month. Then the money goes to you, then you send it to PBS and NPR. However, there will be discounted costs for seniors, people with disabilities, and people close to or below the poverty line. I think this would be a great idea.

Sincerely,

Anonymous

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Unabashed Partisan Commentary at the Expense of reporting

Montana
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PBS Newshour and really anything that PBS puts out has become unabashed left wing propaganda. Since you are publicly funded, it is your duty to be neutral reporters. Instead, you are 'dug in' partisans.

At least ONE of your stories every single day will be a race bait story. I am so disgusted with CPB and PBS that I will not watch your programs anymore. You have forgotten your dignity and responsibilities as reporters.

Come back to a strong stance as pro American and pro Traditional reporting. What do I mean? Objective and neutral reporting. Is that too much to ask/expect? Not if you purport to serve the public.

That is all.

-Jordan H***e

Amna Anwaz

California
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I concur with another comment 11/21 about Ms Anwaz. She is a miserable host of Newshour. She is opinionated and clippy! Next to Geoff Bennett, she is short on smarts and presentations. She reminds me of the former host(ess) of Washington Week. These shows are suppose to be educational, not showy...both women interrupt and Anwaz is curt...I don't watch when she is on screen. I am sustaining member of PBS...Leslie B*****a M*****l

Sunday Morning

Mississippi
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Aeysha Roscoe. Really? She has the voice of a screechy, 14 year old. Her cackling laugh, her weird accentuations ( and I have a home in the Mississippi Delta), her volume and emphasis dive bombs, she's really hard to listen to...especially on a quiet morning. I rather listen to silence. I don't have a lot of money but every time I think of priorities for giving Aeysha Roscoe cancels out any thought of NPR. I give to MPB local programming, WWNO is a total loss- repetitive and boring. But Aeysha Roscoe- I'd pay to have her shut up.

Weekend Edition Sunday

Massachusetts
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I had listened to every episode of Weekend Edition Sunday for decades, with great pleasure. But since Ayesha Rascoe became the host I am no longer able to do so. My Sundays have been significantly diminished as a result. The main reason is her voice. It is so grating that I find it difficult to believe she was chosen as the voice of a major news platform for NPR. In addition to the fingernails on a blackboard quality of her voice, she sometimes drops her 'g's, and often slightly slurs, seemingly in too much of a hurry. She is an excellent journalist and interviewer, but she does not have a voice for radio. I say that having been a broadcast journalist for almost 25 years.